1. Two hearts of Jesus and Mary
We have just celebrated the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Now, we celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
There is a devotion to the twin hearts; referring to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And it shows the two hearts side by side. Artistically speaking there is nothing wrong with the two hearts side by side. We must just keep in mind that there is a difference; in that the Heart of Jesus though human is hypostatically united to God the Son, which cannot happen to man. While the Heart of Mary is united by grace to God; something that is possible to all of us.
The devotion to the Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary is a reminder that, first, salvation is attained through an act of the heart or free will. And secondly, that to be saved our hearts must be as pure as the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
This purity of heart is mentioned in the Beatitudes; ‘Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.’ So to be pure in heart becomes a foretaste of heaven since heaven is ‘seeing God.’ And the pure in heart shall see God.
2. The ‘pure in heart.’
The pure in heart is the one who ‘loves God with all his heart.’ That means the free will of the soul loves God above all things and loves God only. There is no other object of love in that soul. As St. Augustine wrote; all other things are just used to attain salvation. The object of love of the soul is God alone and God only.
But the free will, which is the faculty of loving, is a blind faculty. It can easily be influenced by other factors like the concupiscence and the intellect.
The intellect gathers its knowledge from the senses, most of which is always open, receiving stimuli.
So what enters the senses, like the eyes and ears, enters the intellect. And when this is in the intellect, unless screened by the intellect, it goes straight to the free will, the faculty of loving. In other words, if the eyes sees an immoral picture, this goes straight to the intellect. And from the intellect it goes straight to the free will where the immoral picture can easily be loved by the soul. And this is sin.
The devil knows his psychology. So he introduces sex education in the school curriculum. With that alone, the mind would be filled up with immoral and immodest pictures. These are transmitted to the free will where it is tempted to love them. And that is a lot of sin. Practically all the things taught in school is meant to fill up the mind with sinful or useless garbage. If these are transported to the free will, the will can be overwhelmed with sources of sin.
St. Augustine had already noted this. So he had advised souls seeking to save their souls to avoid all kinds of secular education. And it is for this same reason that monastic schools were established where all things learned are meant to enable the mind to transmit only good knowledge to the free will and for the same will to be able to love God alone; thus obeying the command that will win the soul salvation.
The devil had been called the prince of the world. And he uses the whole world to destroy souls in this manner. He cannot destroy the soul directly. So the devil creates worldly stimuli through computers, movies, magazines to fill the mind with sinful images knowing that these images from the mind will go down to the free will where the free will will surely love them; thus committing sin.
3. Sound strategy.
So the Catholic strategy, on her part, tries to prevent harmful thoughts to reach the mind. If it reaches the mind, it should be screened there and prevented from reaching the free will so they will not be loved. Only in this way will the soul be able to love God alone. But this will need a lot of discipline on the part of the soul.
The need for this caution is symbolized by the monastic practice of building high walls and having locked doors to screen the monasteries from evils. A monastery without doors and walls is inviting spiritual disaster. To remove walls and doors is what Pope Francis is inviting the whole world to do. It is self destruction of their culture, freedom and their religion.
The monastic walls is to screen out the world of which the devil is the prince. And the monastic door is to screen out other monks within the monastery since we are always warned that the Church will always have Judasses; to minimise the evil of their treason they must not mix with the rest thus the locked doors. There is a need to be separated from the world, from bad talkative monks and even from one’s spiritual faculties that is filled with the sinful past. Before, there were 11 good apostles and 1 Judas. Today, it will be 99 Judasses and one St. John.
Thus St. Paul advised that we do not even greet sinful people. Because they will contaminate you with their evil. Mind you, ‘not even to greet them; and Paul adds, ‘not even to eat with them.’ He was referring to Christians, not to pagans.
So like sex education, and now courses in aberosexuality, and everything else in education, children learn how to love everything else in the world except God. St. Augustine clearly described the ‘love of creatures’ as a sin. Loving anything outside of God is a sin (‘He who loves father and mother more than Me is not worthy of Me.’) That is your own father and mother.
How much more sinful it is to love another woman that is not your wife? To love someone of the same sex? To love the environment? To love idols? To love being an atheist? To love idolaters? Pope Francis is so unlike the other Popes. Are you sure he is a Pope?
4. How the heart is corrupted or blessed.
Heaven is to see the Beatific vision. And this is reserved only for the pure in heart. Only the pure in heart can see God. So to go to heaven we must have a pure heart like Jesus and Mary.
How do you obtain a pure heart? The first step is purely through a mature human effort. The second step is purely an Act of God. Let us leave God’s part with Him and concentrate on our human part.
The first step which is purely human consist in this; consider the worldly environment which is the stimuli of the senses. Then, consider the senses that perceives the stimuli. Then the intellect or mind that receives the perception of the stimuli. And lastly, the intellect transmitting the perceptions of the stimuli to the free will.
The last step is that the free will consents and influences the intellect to assent. With that we have a complete human act. If the stimuli is evil and goes through this whole process then we say that the person have committed a sin. If the stimuli is good and goes through this whole process then we say that the person have performed a good work.
5. The conversion of a soul.
Let us take the example of a sinner, like most men today; and he wants to be converted and live. What will he do?
Firstly, the first step to be considered is the stimuli or the environment. Avoid all sinful stimuli that can enter the senses. That means television, radio, magazines, books, billboards, shopping malls, computers, cell-phone…..practically everything except the things that God created like the sea, the forest and the mountains.
So the first Christians who were serious in saving their souls left the cities and the towns to live in islands, in forests and on mountain tops.
Secondly; these stimuli enters and contaminates the mind with worldliness. And the memory is filled with sinful thoughts that can be recalled at one’s command. So there is need to cleanse the intellect and the memory. Since the principle is that the intellect cannot think of two opposite ideas at the same time, then fill the mind with the Words of God. That will gradually remove evil thoughts from the mind and will gradually cause the forgetfulness of the contents of the memory. This is the first main activity when a soul leaves the world and goes to the islands, the forest and the mountain tops. Again, the activity consist in cleansing the mind and memory by filling the mind with readings from Scriptures and the Fathers of the Church. This is done several times to practically fill up the day.
Thirdly, when the mind is filled up with the true and good the mind meditates to inform the free will (or the heart) what it had learned, to convince the free will to consent. If the free will is convinced that what is presented to it is true and good, it will certainly consent and inform the intellect of its consent. If all of this is accomplished, then the intellect acts and both the free will and the intellect cleanses themselves.
Now, the heart is pure and, also, the intellect. The soul sees God and this is a forecast of the Beatific vision of heaven.
6. The present situation.
The entire world’s environment is filled with ‘creatures’ that are distracting all men from thinking and loving God. But worse, the entire Vatican bureaucracy up to the presidents of bishop’s conferences are, also, filling the minds of man with sinful things and sinful desires; adultery, sexual perversion, lying, stealing, doing what they want. All these are implanted in the minds of children up to old age, every second, from morning to mid-night. So the hearts of man ‘had waxed cold’, as Christ, Himself, prophesied. Pope Francis, as evidently clear in all his enactments and announcements is encouraging the world to disobey God and please all sinners.
With Pope Francis who is showing by words and actions that he is not pure in heart, who will lead us to see the Beatific Vision of God in heaven? Well, as from the beginning, we had to do it by our own selves. Today we, still, have to do it by ourselves. And we have shown how it is done above. Pope John Paul had reminded us how to do it in ‘Veritatis Splendour.’ Read it again. It goes contrary to everything Pope Francis is saying.
Do it quick. Your next plane ride could be your last. Your next shopping spree could be made your last by a trigger happy terrorist who have nothing better to do. Or your heart might just stop. Or you wife might hit you on the head with a golf club. Well, whatever way and time you go ….you must be pure in heart, otherwise………..
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